February 29, 2012

The cause of the proble is that you have changed your facebook privacy settings to “Turn off all apps” (under “Apps and Websites”). This will disable your ability to send messages via jabber, as well as to receive messages sent via jabber. ….To fix the problem, simply enable apps again….. both you *and* the facebook friend you are sending messages to need to have apps enabled for jabber communication to work

I do not use facebook. I value my privacy: it is not a commodity. Please use an OTR capable client, and enable OTR (auto start / or require). Psi+ is such a client and is cross-platform. Unfortunately if you are not installing via PPA (ubuntu) you must manually install the Psi+ OTR plugin (unpack from 7zip archive into plug-ins directory, options plug-ins enable)

Remember: you used an email address to signup for facebook. So, yes, you do have an email address. When you invariably ask “hey, what’s your facebook?” and the privacy aware friend replies “I don’t facebook,” be sure to follow with “what’s your email? oh, and what’s your jabber?”. play well together nicely.

January 2, 2011

Wladimir is porting AdBlock Plus to Chromium (Chrome). I would preferer a XUL AdBlock Plus appplication as well for more flexibility with more browsers via local proxy. Leave the browser to browsing, remember proxomitron glory, and maybe someday take a page from “google’s” playbook of multiple processes to keep multiple extension [bloat] from draggin’ us down.

on the occasion of being asked for phone ‘advice’ the truth rarely disuades one snared by Morning Star’s twinkling light: it’s not a phone, it’s not a tablet, it’s not smart. It is an indentity challenged device that’s flat, can make calls though beyond the phone appellation little more regard is offered in marketing, and it’s sly at best running adroid (AOSP). What is google’s PRIMARY function (yes, all for-profit companies exist to make money) ?? Data minining. What is google’s SECONDARY function? Showing ads.

Now 720p is “true HD glory” and 4.3 inches is a “large widescreen”?

If you insist on a droid x, person x, please ‘root’ it and slap in a less creepy ROM. At the very least you’ll GAIN ADBLOCKING.